Week Seventeen - The Past

Think back to your childhood this week. 

• What events stand out? 
• How have they impacted your life today? 
• Choose a different one each day and see what conclusions you come to. Write about what you learned.

Week Sixteen - Self Acceptance

Living in a state of self-acceptance is a peaceful place to be. I know from much previous experience what it is like to not feel that much of myself was acceptable. I was pretty ok with my smile and I thought I must be fairly intelligent although I never seemed to make much of a success of anything and a pretty good mom.

Today, after many years of work on myself, I pretty much 'can do no wrong'. That does not mean I don't make mistakes or need to accept responsibility for them. It means that when I make them, I don't beat myself up or do other harm to me or anyone else. I accept. I learn. I move on.

Scary topic for many. Not so for others. 

• How do you come by self-acceptance? 
• What about yourself do you find unacceptable? 
• What are you motivated to change? 
• How might you do it?

Week Fifteen - Aspects of anger

Anger is a big topic. Some of us feel lots of anger. Some of us have a hard time acknowledging that we feel it all.

In my family, it seemed to me that only my mother was 'allowed' to get angry. I decided that anger was scary and I didn't want to be like my mother who seemed to have way too much of it.

• How do you handle anger?
• Describe what it was like in your home growing up when it came to anger.

What do you notice when you go back and read what your wrote?

Week Fourteen - How much can you accomplish in a day?

You have plans to go out with your friends but you don't get enough sleep the night before and know that the best thing would be to go to sleep early. What do you do?

That's an example of how you might actually go against what you know you need. 

Look for examples this week of how you might do that.

Week Thirteen - Personal Mission Statement

"I a teacher of personal growth who holds a vision of empowered people by what I am teaching and what we am about.

I believe in my heart that we can live in a world where a human beings can be strong on the outside and completely vulnerable to their emotions on the inside.

That means a world where all feelings are honored and all people take responsibility for their own feelings - men and women.

I perform daily acts of courage by appropriate expression of feelings with full responsibility taken for those emotions. This ultimately leads to peace in my heart, in my family. I intend to see it in my community, in my country and on this planet"

This week work on crafting your own personal mission statement. 

• What do you believe your mission in life is? 
• If you don't know that, what would you like it to be?

Week Twelve - What is the authentic you?

Who is the Real You? When you are born you are closest to your perfect, authentic self. Then you take on layers of programming and conditioning. So then your personality is made up of beliefs, decisions, unresolved and unexpressed emotions, real or imagined perceptions of the world, defense mechanisms and all the influences from around you.

This week write the ways you think this is true and the ways you see yourself being fully authentic - and the ways you are not. 

• Are you yourself at work? 
• In relationship to friends? 
• Family? 
• Partners?

Week Eleven - A year ago

How is your life different now from just a year ago? 
How is it better? 
How is it worse? 
What are you planning to do to change what doesn't work for you?